There’s an alien in your avocado

[via Sleepner]

Neighborly love note painted over ugly tags

[via Meesha]

You’re a 45-year-old rock musician about to release a comeback album in 1986

Here’s a fun game, courtesy of local rock historian David Enos:

It’s 1986.  You’re a 45 year old rock musician who is about to release a comeback album.  Your face is wrecked but your handlers picked out a new blazer and pair of jeans that will make you look more in step with the times.  Don’t forget to roll the sleeves up.  What do you call this album?

Find out here.

[Graphic by Art Moth]

American Tripps means Berlin-style ping pong this Friday [WARNING: Poster may induce seizure]

American Tripps is back, everybody! That was a rough two weeks off, am I right? RSVP and invite all your friends here.

P.S. There’s a new album of crummy cellphone pictures from the first two weeks up here.

Here’s what the rehabilitated Dolores Park is going to look like

Fine by me. I’m just happy there aren’t any new staircases bisecting the shelf.

Dolores Park Works gets into more detail:

The road system remains essentially as sketched early on in the process. One spur connects the corner of 18th and Church with Dolores, hugging south side of the tennis courts. The main route picks up near the new maintenance building, in the  north-west corner and cuts across almost the entire park to the new playground and picnic areas.  The designers have narrowed much of the road from a proposed 14 feet to 12 and where it crosses the North Field, 10 feet.

Read on for details on bathrooms and stuff.

Words With Friends says ‘jorts’ is not an acceptable word

Holy crap, and now my browser is telling me jorts is not an acceptable word. TECHNOLOGY IS FAILING US AT EVERY TURN!!!!

[via xtine]

Batman at SFPD’s Mission Station

[via landyacht]

Two or three concerts to consider this evening

Airfix Kits rule. Watch and learn:

Maus Haus rules too. They’re playing at the Knockout tonight, and here they are performing in the girls’ bathroom there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvrIE77fAM4

(I’m going to the Dukes of Hamburg show though.)

American Trippin’

The last edition of American Tripps was another smashing success. Here’s some proof — in glorious black and white — courtesy of our pal Joshua Cobos:

See the whole album here. (Tag yourself, tag your friends.) And do RSVP and invite your friends to the next American Tripps, which is coming up on Friday, September 2nd.

Iconic 19th Street ‘Mac and Cheese’ sidewalk etching gets filled with actual mac-and-cheese powder

And then you suck it out with a straw? Fair.

(Thanks, Melena!)

Allan Hough

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Biographical Info:

"I joked that living in the Mission would be the end of me. And there were nights where it felt like the case.

One night I went out with my friend Allan to the bar that no one goes to on 16th Street, where I lost half my drink and money on the dance floor. Later we skated down 16th to Evelyn Lee, where I fell off my board and landed on my head as the 22 bus sped past behind me. A sobering moment. At the bar, I sulked and nursed my wounds until Allan put on Amy Winehouse’s 'Valerie.' We danced, he dipped me, and I felt better."

— My pal Valerie, writing about life in the Mission